2005/09/12 by Zhiyong Xu, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.113901
published as Physical Review Letters, V.95, 113901 (2005) · 16 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2005/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We address the impact of nonlocality in the physical features exhibited by solitons supported by Kerr-type nonlinear media with an imprinted optical lattice. We discover that nonlocality of nonlinear response can profoundly affect the soliton mobility, hence all the related phenomena. Such behavior manifests itself in significant reductions of the Peierls-Nabarro potential with increase of the degree of nonlocality, a result that opens the rare possibility in nature of almost radiationless propagation of highly localized solitons across the lattice.